Lover of family, food, animals, movies, science, and general weirdness in different orders on different days.
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Toad Road 2012
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Concise review: Kids + The Blair Witch Project = less than the sum of its parts
Less Concise review: So I’m exploring Hulu’s movie offerings on a Friday night and stumble across this intriguing title. At a brisk-looking 65 minutes, I figured it was worth the risk. I come away from it equal measures disappointed and impressed: a well-executed exercise in naturalistic cinema in service of a scary story that turns out to be not particularly scary.
Our protagonist,James, is…
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The Lords of Salem 2012
Rob Zombie wants you to know is wife is hotter and hipper and kinkier than your wife will ever be. So he made this movie. Thanks Rob, but she’s just not my type.
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The Dinosaur Project 2012
My fascination with found footage horror is like my fascination with horror in general: to find the occasional transcendent moment, much z-grade muck must be endured. "The Dinosaur Project"--a film so indebted to found footage granny the Blair Witch that it retains "project" in its title--ends up solidly in that lumpy middle ground between z-grade and transcendent, more watchable than "The Frankenstein Theory", more forgettable than "Cloverfield." The plot is as familiar as one's own flatulence: filmmakers set off into…
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Spring Breakers 2012
When does exploitation knock on the door of art? In "Spring Breakers," it happened for me around the time James Franco's toothy gangsta Alien bounces up and down on his spaceship bed saying "Look at my shit!' I've got a soft spot for films that shine a light on the joys of unbridled consumption and money-worship, messages we're bombarded with every day and tend to except without question, albeit filtered through our own personal worldviews. We're not all doing it…
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